Posts Tagged ‘dulce de leche’

Welcome to Ice Cream Week 2014! This year the event is hosted by Kim of Cravings of a Lunatic and Susan of The Girl in the Little Red Kitchen. We have teamed up with 25 amazing bloggers to bring you ice cream treats all week long. I hope you have as much fun as we did. Break out those stretchy pants and celebrate Ice Cream Week with us.

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The kick off of Ice Cream Week just so happens to land on National Ice Cream Pie Day and obviously I took the opportunity to make an ice cream pie. A salted caramel ice cream pie complete with a pretzel crust.

I know that dulce de leche technically is not caramel but it does have a caramelized flavor. I have recently become obsessed with no-churn ice cream and since it is made with sweetened condensed milk I decided that dulce de leche was the perfect choice for making a caramel-like no-churn ice cream. After all, you can make dulce de leche by cooking sweetened condensed milk while it’s still in the can. And this ice cream pie tasted pretty darn good to me!

Happy day after my birthday…I mean…Cinco de Mayo! And of course that also means the Holiday Recipe Club is stepping up again to bring you all kinds of festive foods incorporating dulce de leche, chorizo, or tomatoes. I caved into the desserts once again since I have never baked with dulce de leche before. And after seeing this brownie recipe I really could not pass up the opportunity. Just the simple addition of some dulce de leche really kicks these brownies up to a whole new level, while retaining the characteristics of being thick, chewy, and moist – the way all brownies should be.

You can definitely use store-bought dulce de leche, but I went ahead and made my own because it was so easy (and cheaper). You simple take the label off of a regular can of sweetened condensed milk, submerge it under water in your slow-cooker and set on low for 8 hours. Take out, cool and use!

How are you celebrating today? Check out the other recipes linked up at the bottom of this post for more festive ideas! And if you are interested in joining for the next holiday, be sure to visit the HRC contact page.